Broadly speaking, sports cars are those in which performance takes priority over carrying capacity, but within these limits a tremendous variety of cars have been made over the past sixty years. This book begins by tracing the development of the sporting car from the tourer in pre-1914 days. The touring events that bred the sporting car, the Herkomer and Prince Henry Trials in Germany, the Alpine Trials of Austria, and the formidable Russian Trials are described, together with the cars that competed in them – such as the Austro-Daimler, Vauxhall, Rolls-Royce and Horch. After World War 1 the sports car flourished in every country, and the chapters in Part Two cover the famous Bentleys, Bugattis, Alfa Romeos and Mercedes-Benz, as well as the obscurer German sports cars and the spidery Spanish cyclecars developed from wheeled bobsleds. The American chapters in the first two parts run from the Mercer and Stutz raceabouts of 1912 through the Paige-Daytona, Jordan, and Dupont speedsters… (tovább)
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